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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

My metwork won't start. We have a win domain network, couple of workgroups aswell, dhcp is enabled and so on... I have no idea how to connect my RH to a workgroup or even to convince that it starts eth. Where can I look for the problems?

login as root and in the terminal type setup or netconfig. With these tools u will be able to setup your network settings like ip/gateway, etc.
U said that u had a w2k domain with dhcp setup, with the tools I mentioned there will be an option that says DHCP select that option for DHCP to work. Once this is done u can check to see if your network service is running without this NO NETWORK . Check this buy typing in the following cmd /etc/rc.d/init.d/network status the response should say eth0 active. If the respoonse says that not active or something use setup tool again u will see a menu that says services and enable the network service. Once this all has been done then check if you linux box has an ip buy typing in the following cmd ifconfig.

OK now that u connected to the network place the following cmd in your /etc/fstab to mount the shares from your w2k box //server/share /mnt/dir smbfs username=user,password=xxx 0 0